iLost My Mind, the 14th episode of Season 4, is the first episode of the four-episode storyline continuing iOMG. It is the eighty-fourth episode overall. The long-awaited sequel to iOMG received just over 5.5 million views on its premiere date.[1]

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Plot

After Sam kissed Freddie (in iOMG), she goes missing for three days, telling no one where she is. Since

This episode won second place for Best Episode at the iCarly Wiki Awards!

Carly and Freddie are worried about her, they track her Pear phone and figure out she's at Troubled Waters Mental Hospital. Carly, Freddie and Gibby go to the hospital and find that she is there. Sam explains she checked herself into the mental hospital because she thought she was insane for liking Freddie. She and Freddie have a discussion, and she realizes she isn't insane after all.

Meanwhile, Gibby has a sub-plot where he meets a man called Caleb (guest starring Jim Parsons from the Big Bang Theory), who insists that he is from the future and makes 'prophetic' statements like "California is going to fall into the ocean". Sam tries to leave the hospital but the guards say that she is not allowed to leave without a parent signing a release paper. Her mother is in Tijuana having laser hair removal, and her father isn't around, so Spencer pretends to be Sam's mother (Pam Puckett). Their plan fails when a guy Spencer went to law school with recognizes him, alerting the hospital staff to the ruse.

As Sam still hasn't been released and the trio have iCarly to film that evening they decide to do the show from the hospital. The guards and nurses are against the idea, but the patients (one in particular with a very deep voice) influence them to allow the filming. When they do the web show, instead of Gibby playing Hey, What Am I Sitting On? and trying to figure out what type of fish it is (sushi), Carly asks viewers via video chat if they think Sam is insane for having a crush on Freddie. Most of the viewers say it's totally normal, but the last 'viewer' is Freddie himself, who uses his PearPad to tell Sam how he feels. At first, she thinks he's doing it to get back at her for all the mean things she's done to him, but he instead kisses her, showing that he returns her feelings.

Trivia

iLost My Mind and Sam and Freddie trended on Twitter on its premiere night

The iCarly webcast which shows Freddie and Sam kissing was uploaded on iCarly.com before it aired on TV. This accident may have affected the viewer count of this episode. The video got removed during the airing of the episode and got uploaded again after it was done.

This is the second episode Carly is physically subdued and gagged by Sam (the first being ISpeed Date).

This episode provides a new opening sequence. During the theme song when "iCarly.com" is being typed "DanWarp" and "TheSlap" can be seen in the toolbar being a reference to Victorious and the creator Dan Schneider.

"DanWarp" can be seen on the monitor behind Spencer during one scene of the new opening sequence.

In the background during a scene, Hungry Girl can be seen on the TV.

On the walls in the mental hospital, signs that read phrases such as "Friends don't kill friends!", "Do not eat game pieces!", "Please don't feed the patients!", "Urine is for restrooms!", "Please keep pants on!" and "Only bite food!" can be seen.

Spencer saying "...in ways you can't understand," is a very brief nod to Dan Schneider's show All That: the character Coach Kreeton (played by Kel Mitchell) was known to yell "Daagghh! Aw, you've upset me in ways you can't understand!"

Girly Cow can be viewed in the background on the TV in the first scene at the mental institution.

Spencer's book club girls are seen for the second time in this episode. The first time was in iParty with Victorious.

Gibby's voice is much deeper in this season than in past episodes because Noah Munck is going through puberty.

Sam now owns a PearPhone, which was first seen in previous episode iParty with Victorious.

This episode hit the top five on iTunes in less than six hours after its release, hitting #1 later the same day and remained in the top 10 for quite some time.

Autographed "finger painting"

Dantweeted that he had Jennette sign the "finger painting" herself and sign her character Sam Puckett's name. He also mention he now has that same painting in his own home.

This is the at least the fifth time Nathan and Jennette have had an on-screen kiss thus far for iCarly. The first as Sam and Freddie in iKiss, the second as Freddie and Melanie in iTwins. They've also had to kiss twice for iOMG as Sam and Freddie, where Dan revealed they shot the kiss two different ways. Then, the one after that in this episode and following twice in iDate Sam & Freddie and twice for iCan't Take It - not counting practice kisses or do-overs.

Sam and Freddie getting together after Sam checks into a mental hospital parallels how Josh and Mindy from Drake & Josh got together.

First Gibby and then Carly fall for Caleb's assertion that he is from the year 2077 and that he remembers meeting them on this very day. For that to be true Caleb would have to be at least 80 years old.

At one point Caleb says to Gibby: "Would you like to know more?" This is a quote from the B movie "Starship Troopers."

Seddie became canon in this episode.

Goofs

When Carly and Freddie are trying to locate Sam's Pearphone, they enter the number 503-664-0452 into a web site. However 503 is the area code for Portland, Oregon. The area code for Seattle is 206.

If Sam is underage to sign out of the mental hospital, wouldn't that mean she's underage to sign in?

Freddie: I'm really getting worried about Sam... I mean, it's been three days since--Carly: Since you two kissed!?Freddie: [eyebrows raise] ...Carly: Yeah! I know! I saw it with both my eyes! [walks over to her backpack] You guys were talking and... she kissed you and you didn't stop her, why—why didn't you tell me?Freddie: Well I-- [interrupted by Carly]Carly: You should've told me! Do you like her? Is this—is this a new chapter in our lives? What is goin' on?Freddie: [trying to change the subject] ...Do you have any fruit?Carly: [not falling for it] I don't know, but if I do, you can have it! You know why? 'Cause I don't keep things from you!

Sam: Why'd you come here?Freddie: To figure out why you checked yourself into a mental hospital!Sam: You wanna know why?Freddie: Kinda!Sam: 'Cause I hate you!

Freddie: Then why'd you kiss me?!Sam: 'Cause I...! [quietly] ... I like you...

Freddie: So, you hate me... and you like me...?Sam: Now you see why I need to be in here? Ah, I got problems. I can't think straight, I can't eat, I--I--Attendant: Sam, we have hot quesadillas--[Sam grabs plate of quesadillas, shuts the door on the attendant, starts eating] Freddie: Look, Sam, I get that you're feeling a little--Sam: Oh, who cares! So I kissed you. So...so maybe I do like you a little bit. It doesn't matter 'cause... there's no way I'd ever go out with you or be your little girlfriend and... dang, this place makes good quesadillas!Freddie: Can I have one?Sam: No!Freddie: Look,can we talk about the kiss?Sam: Yeah, uh, actually, let's never talk about it, alright?Freddie: Sam... [Sam gives Freddie a death glare] Don't kill me... [backs away] I was just gonna say... no matter what happened that night, or what you're feeling right now... [puts his hand on her shoulder] I'm telling you--Sam:[without even looking at him] Off.Freddie:[takes his hand off her shoulder] You're not any more mentally unstable than you have been your whole life!Sam: You really mean that?Freddie: I do.Sam: 'Kay...let's get out of here [dumps quesadillas into her purse as they leave].Freddie: Good. [Sam grabs her purse and dumps the rest of her quesadillas in her purse and walks out the door with Freddie] Sure.

Caleb: And in the year 2041, the entire state of California... kerplunk!Gibby: [Gasps]Caleb: Into the ocean!Gibby: Those poor celebrities!

Carly: He's not from the future.

Gibby: Is!Caleb: Gibby, you watch your tone. You are speaking to the future Vice President of the United States!Carly: He's not speaking to the... I'm gonna be Vice President?

Gibby: Yeah, [pokes Carly] who believes now?

Carly: [as a group of police officers at the mental hospital forcibly escort her and Freddie out of the mentalhospital] Hey, paws off! I'm the future Vice President of the United States!!!

This quote won third place for Best Quote at the iCarly Wiki Awards!

Carly: [to Spencer] Hi, are those your book club ladies?

Spencer: YesFreddie: You guys talkin' about a book?Spencer: No, just exchanging recipes.Gibby: Recipes for what?Spencer: Fruit tarts.[Freddie, Carly and Gibby laugh at him]Spencer: [to the book club ladies] Okay everybody out!

Spencer: No! I am not dressing up like Sam's mom!Carly: We weren't gonna ask you to.Spencer:But I wanna do it!Freddie: Fine.Carly: Okay.Spencer: I'll get my boobs!

Caleb: [chuckling crazily at the TV]Sam: Caleb!Caleb: [still laughing] What?Sam: The TV's not on!Caleb: [notices she's right] Ahhhhh!!!! [Runs out of the room]

Caleb: Four years from now, Virginia and West Virginia will merge to form one HUGE Virginia!Carly: ...Settle down, Virginia.

Sam: [during iCarly to the viewers] You'd be crazy to go anywhere else!!

Sam: Okay look, I don't care how many iCarly fans say I'm not insane for liking Freddie. I know I'm cra--Freddie:[interrupts Sam] Wa-Wa-Wa—Let's take one more chat.Sam: No, I don't wanna...Freddie: Just one more!Sam:[groans]Freddie: Here, hold this. [looks to Carly, gives her his camera, takes the PearPad].Carly:[whispers]You be nice.Freddie: Just-- [into PearPad, to web audience] Hey, it's me, Freddie. So, uh...a lot of people have been talking about whether Sam and I should, ya know, "go out" with each other—and it's like everyone's wondering if Sam is crazy for wanting to. But nobody asked me how I feel.Sam:[to Freddie] ...We talked about it.Freddie: No, you talked. You told me how you feel, while you ate a quesadilla.Sam:[to web audience] The quesadillas here are amazing.Carly:[shushes Sam]Freddie:[continues] Anyway, yeah, it's important how Sam feels, but how I feel is important too.Sam: OK, Benson, we get it! You wanna humiliate me on the web in front of millions of people, go ahead and just do it, I don't care! Get back at me for all the mean things I've sa--[Freddie confidently walks across the room and quiets Sam by kissing her for 8 seconds] Sam: [after the kiss ends, confused]... You mean that?Freddie: [smiling] Mmm hm...[in a deep voice].... so I guess we're both insane.Sam: ... So now what?